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FRAME FOR POCKET BOOKS,SATGHELS &c.

No. 385,639. Patented July 3, 1888.

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UNITED STATES FFICEO LOUIS MESSER, OF NE'W YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,639, dated July 3, 1888.

Application filed April 158$. Serial TTo. 269.7%. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS MEssER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented newand useful Improvements inFrames for Pocket-Books and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in frames for such articles as pocket-books,purses, bags, satchels, and other articles, as set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in sec tion. Fig. 2 is a section in the plane 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of an attacher adapted to secure a handle end in place. Fig. 4 is a detail front view of amodification ofthe lock shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section in the plane y y, Fig. 4:. Figs. 6 and 7 are de tail views of another modification of the lock shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a View showing the parts of Figs. 6 and 7 applied to use. Fig. 9 is a section in the plane 2 z, Fig. 8.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letters A A indicate frames of an article, such as abag, said frames being adapted to open and closein the ordinary way. The frames have bases B G for the locking device. The frames are shown as having catches D, and when the frames are pressed together the elasticity of the frames will cause the catches D to spring over shoulders E on the bases B O, as seen in Fig. 2, so as to lock the frames together. The shoulders D can be formed at edges of the bases B O, as seen in Fig. 2, or said shoulders can be formed in the shape of eyes, as seen in Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9, and by having the catches D engage the eyes E, Fig. 9, the frames will be locked together. One catch, D, engaging ashouldcr,E, will lock the frames together; but two catches, D, and

two shoulders, E, are shown as tending to in the direction of arrow 3, and by thus forciug the frames a sufficient distance. the catches D are brought into position to release the shoulders E, when the frames Acan be opened or separated.

Instead of employing a pivoted lever or arm, F, as in Figs. 1 and 8, to move the bag'frames A A and their attached base-pieces B O longitudinally in opposite directions to disengage the catch from the shoulder, I may use for this purpose the means shown in Fig. 4, in which each base-piece is provided with an upwardly-projecting lever or arm, I, so that by pressing the one toward the other, as indi cated by the arrows 2 3, the two bag-frames A, with their basepieces, are moved lengthwise in opposite directions and the catch thereby released.

The handle J, Figs. 1 and 2, is shown attached by means of an attacher consisting of a shank, K, Fig. 3, of spring metal, having eye'sL. The shank K is passed through the handle J or made to engage the handle, as seen in Fig. 1, and the eyes L are sprung into engagement with lugs M on the frames A. Vhen the shank K is bentinto a loop, as seen in Fig. 1, the spring of said shank tending to straighten the shank will press the eyes L into engagement with the lugs M. A cap, N, can be made to conceal and protect the spring loop or attacher K I.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the bag-frames A A, of the base B,stationary on one frame and provided with a locking-catch, and a base, C, stationary on the other frame, and having a shoulder with which the locking-catches engage by the inherent elasticity of the two frames, and from which shoulder the catch is released by bodily moving the base-pieces with the two bagframes lengthwise in opposite directions, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the bag-frames A A, movable lengthwise in opposite directions,

of the base-piece B, stationary on one frame, and having a locking-catch, a base-piece, O, stationary on the other frame, and having a lockingshoulder, and means, substantially as described, for bodily moving the base-pieces, with the two bagframes, lengthwise in oppolocking-shoulder E and laterally-projecting catch D, and the base-piece G on the other frame, having a similar locking-shoulder and lateral catch, the said catches respectively engaging the opposite locking-shoulders of 20 the two base-pieces, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a bag-frame having the lugs M M, ofa handle, J, and an elastic shank, K, secured to the handle, and having two eyes, L, respectively engaging the lugs, substantially as described.

6. Thecombinatiomwithabag-framehaving the lugs M M, of the handle J, the loop K, having eyes L,engaging the lugs, and the cap N, surrounding the loop, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS MESSER. [L. s.]

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM MILLER, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

